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Originally Posted by HarryT
No, it certainly wasn't. All the eInk readers were in short supply for months - Kindle, CyBook, Sony, and iLiad. The "bottleneck" was the manufacturing capacity of the screen manufacturer, PVI in Taiwan. They now appear to have increased their production, and all the readers are back "in stock".
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Well only the Kindle came out as 'the most famous eReader in short-supply' after that fiasco. They would not let go of any opportunity to generate publicity.
I've been an Amazon (UK) customer for over a decade (it used to be bookpages.co.uk till the American giants bought it off.) I have never had a problem with this one company still I'd be extremely scared of a giant corporation controlling all information. We have seen the results of the rise of the Murdoch empire in news media. Amazon are growing too big. I used to buy scholarly books from an excellent American company called
www.frontlist.com. Checked their website last week and even they are bought off by Amazon now. Well, Amazon are almost in a position to decide which books are sold and which are not. Their share of the market is becoming dangerously large. With Kindle they have already made a head-start in the ebook market.
Edit: Just looked for Frontlist.com, it has disappeared! Google has some cached remains if somebody is really interested. Hope it comes back, I wouldn't be surprised if it didn't.